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A Canadian has spent the past two weeks learning the ropes of British tennis in the hope that he can transmit the energy the sport is generating in his homeland to the moribund, participation-falling, “the weather’s-always- against-us” British game. Finding one or two players such as Eugenie Bouchard would buy him some time.

Michael Downey, the new chief executive officer of the LTA, is navigating his way through the slightly less crowded corridors of power — he agreed to the recent spate of cutbacks before officially assuming his post — just as the best young player in the country he left behind